Car-indicator.



A. D. COWDEN.

GAR INDICATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 24, 1911 1,121,614. Patented Dec.22,1914

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ments in car indicators, one object ofthe' invention being the provision of an indicator or tallying medium, whereby the station agent or freight agent may readily tally the cars under his direct supervision, both as to local and foreign cars, local cars meaning the'carscontrolled by the railroad employing such agent, while:

the foreign cars are the cars owned and controlled by other roads, such indicator being so disposed and operated as to give the total number of the various classes and kind of freight cars, and Whether loaded or empty, together with the proper symbols, or numbers if desired, for carrying such totals to the proper column of thetelegraphic car report, it being the prime ob,

ject of this invention to make it an easy matter to assemble all cars at a station under the proper symbol'to be transmitted by telegraph to the superintendents office, or other main office:

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as'the description proceeds, the inventionresides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter de scribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of a the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings is illustrated a perspective view of the upper end of the present car indicator, showing that the single leaf may be opened to covereither portion of the stiff back.

Referring to the drawings, the base plate 5 is provided with a local index 6 and with a foreign index 8, while hingedly connected to form a hinge as at 7 is the leaf ,7, carrying upon the outer face as exhibited the foreign index, and upon the face 10 the edge of which only is presented is an index similar to the index 9, for correlation with the local index 6. This form of car innex is especially adapted to be used as a proper symbols of the various cars.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 22 1914. Application filed November 24, 1911. Serial No. 662,229. i

handy and ready means for giving the With the yard book in one hand, and this little book in the other, the cars may be readily traced through the diagram, leading the operator to the proper symbol. These symbols may be noted after each car in the ard book, or tallied out on slipsof paper,

or in any way found convenient to the operator using the same.

In further describing the index and the operation thereof, it is' to be noted that the indices 6 and 8 are provided under the respective heads of Local and Foreign, the following parenthetical notations, to wit:+BoX sub-divided into Large and Small further sub-divided respectively into Loaded and Empty, the telegraphic code for each being disposed adjacent the respective words Loaded and Empty. hen the leaf 8 is disposed to rest upon and conceal the local index 6, there will be in correlation to the word Large, the two words Loaded and Empty, each one of which has its particular symbol and as therein illustrated C indicating loaded, BZ indicating empty. Thus the symbol C would indicate that there was a loaded large box car and that such box car was a foreign car. By this means, the various numbers and classes of cars maybe checked, and when entered in the yard book or when telegraphicreport is made thereon, it is merely necessary for the operator to tele- 1. An. indicator for local and for-- eign cars, comprising a book of one leaf graph 10 C to indicate that there is at his 1 of relatively stifl" material and a flat relatively stiff back, the leaf being hinged to swing to cover one portion of the back at a time, one portion of the back and the corresponding portion of the leaf being provided each with a series of terms for local or foreign cars, such terms being descriptive.of some broad characteristic of a car, and the remaining portions of the leaf and back for correlation with the terms for local and foreign cars being provided with qualifying terms descriptive of thecar, such qualifying terms being so disposed as to correlate with the respective back.

i local or foreign terms according to' relatively to the the position of the '7 leaf 2. A car indicator," comprising a book of one leaf and a fiat relatively stiff back, the

leafy being relatively stiff and hinged so as to swing to cover one portion of the back at a time one portion of the back at oneside V tively to the baclny of the hinge line of the'leaf being provided With a series of terms for local cars, such series 'ofterins being descriptive of some broad characteristic of a car, While similar terms for foreign cars are disposed upon the side of the leaf that lies flat upon to conceal the other side portion of the back, there-being provided upon the remaining ifiopies of this patent may be obtained for side of .theleaf for correlation With the local ftern1s andup'on the portion of the hack to the right of the hinge forcorrelation with the foreign terms, qualifying termsdescriptive of the car, such qualifying terms being. so disposed as-to correlate With the respective local and foreign "terms according to the positionof the-leaf rela v five cents each,' by addressing the Commissioner of EatentS.

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